13. Moreover, you make a charge against yourself which has been
brought by no one against you, and make excuses where no one has
accused you. You say that you have read these and in my letter:
“I want to know who has given you leave when translating a book,
to remove some things, change others, and again add others.” And
you go on to answer yourself, and to speak against me: “I say
this to you Who I pray, has given you leave, in your Commentaries, to
put down some things out of Origen, some from Apollinarius, some of
your own, instead of all from Origen or from yourself or from some
other?” All this while, while you are aiming at something
different, you have been preferring a very strong charge against
yourself; and you have forgotten the old proverb, that those who speak
falsehood should have good memories. You say that I in my Commentaries
have set down some things out of Origen, some from Apollinarius, some
of my own. If then these things which I have set down under the names
of others are the words of Apollinarius and of Origen; what is the
meaning of the charge which you fasten upon me, that, when I say
“Another says this,” “The following is some
one’s conjecture,” that “other” or “some
one” means myself? Between Origen and Apollinarius there is a
vast difference of interpretation, of style, and of doctrine. When I
set down discrepant opinions on the same passage, am I to be supposed
to accept both the contradictory views? But more of this
hereafter.